2006. I spent that amount in helena at the Historical Society to work on the cypress hill massacre. Has anybody heard of this massacre . Excellent. It was at that even as a sort of a notorious but obscure 1873 slaughter in which a group of montana who wolf trap first slipped across into canada and held to a dozen indians. But i thought i would use this event and this is why i had gone in the first place, to explain the hardening of the u. S. Canada border ever after, the socalled wild west of the United States and the mild west of canada north and 49th. This is why i was in montana that summer. The problem was i became very bored with the story which is a bad sign in the new project. Adding to my displeasure is the fact i was living in on the glamorous life that is the typical of an academic eating tv dinners and eating Peanut Butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch every day and allowing myself only one diet coke in an effort to stretch my grant from the Historical Society as far as i c
He became a prominent businessman and an industrialist throughout the south and he opened a series of mines into North Carolina and he was an entrepreneur in nt open up several hotels. He was always working with moneymaking opportunities in the and would stay with them for two or three years and he was also the mayor of chattanooga in 1870 and he was sort of a prominent citizen. So i think it is appropriate that we get this collection of letters that he wrote to his wife. One thing i find interesting is that a lot of these letters started off by asking a person why havent you written more and theyre like we havent received a letter from you and complaining about that. But i think during the civil war they were particular about writing about this in their letters and these give a lot of information about what they are doing what they are planning to do and there is a lot of information about the missions of these troops went on and the skirmishes and the battle. I find one very interest
Principle on the speaker and said we will send you home, the president has been shot. We will let you know when School Resumes to i would him and i realized it was a big deal saturday morning because there were no cartoons. But our neighbor being fascinated. This i is a number of drugs my dear beloved mother state over the years of a sixyearold you of a funeral procession. You can see the case on the case on i was passing by the riderless horse that had the boots backwards. Thats really something. I think itd. One of the things that makes it such a tragedy, ill mention the children. So caroline was roughly our age. John lewis and but if youre a kid you could identify with it because the kids were on tv with the mother. I think it really did have a strong impact on children of a certain age, if they can remember. I dont know that it put me what profession us going to be in but i remember it being a big deal and i have extremely vivid memories. It was unique. Thank you. That are 37 image
Could make an informed judgment about whether they want such an institution or not. Host and we have been talking on booktv with georgetown law professor louis mike l seidman Michael Seidman about his book, on constitutional disobedience. And you are watching booktv on cspan2. Youre watching booktv, nonfiction authors and books every weekend on cspan2. During booktvs recent trip to chattanooga, tennessee, we took a tour of the civil war papers of john t. Wilder, a native northerner who relocated to the south after he attacked a Union Officer during the civil war. Collections of the university of tennessee of chattanooga. The john q. Oliver papers that we have here at the university, a collection that we acquired around 1960 from one of general wilders daughters who was till alive at the time the still alive at the time, she donated a collection of military documents and letters that her father wrote to their mother in indiana during the war. Wilder, after the war, did what a lot of Uni